National Book Award Nomination

No, not me. Yet...

The 9/11 Report was nominated for the National Book Award. I read it. It's fantastic--gripping, interesting, fast-paced. I didn't know a lot of the details, like that they thought one flight was the same as another (sorry, the details elude me here), they scrambled fighter planes for only the first plane and sent them directly out towards the Atlantic Ocean NOT towards the plane, that many of the fireman in the WTC refused to take orders from cops and thus did not hurry out and presumably died because of it. There's a lot in there, it's eight bucks on Amazon, and it's a page turner.

Highly recommended. But highly surprising that a bunch of government pencil pushers could crank out something so compelling, eh?